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Herbert J. McChrystal
United States Army general
Herbert Joseph McChrystal Jr. (May 30, 1924 – December 10, 2013) was a major general in the United States Army and the father of General Stanley A.
McChrystal.
Early years and personal life
Herbert Joseph McChrystal Jr. was born in 1924 in the Panama Canal Zone to Colonel Herbert McChrystal Sr. (1895–1954), who was stationed with the United States military and Hazel Marion (née Vosper) McChrystal.
He married Mary Gardner Bright, with whom he had six children. Mary McChrystal died in 1971.[1] He is a distant relative of Corporal Charles Edward McChrystal, US Army Corporal and Purple Heart recipient, who died in France during World War II.
Career
After completing high school in Pullman, Washington,[1] McChrystal graduated from New Mexico Military Institute Junior College in 1942 and the United States Military Academy in 1945,[2] and was part of the occupying force in Germany after World Wa